TY - JOUR T1 - Us War In Iraq In The Light Of The Major An Minor Powers Conflict TT - Us War In Iraq In The Light Of The Major An Minor Powers Conflict AU - Malık, Salma PY - 2004 DA - May DO - 10.1501/Intrel_0000000101 JF - The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations PB - Ankara Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 0544-1943 SP - 83 EP - 106 IS - 35 LA - en AB - This September marked a whole 3 years to the 9/11 incidence in the United States, and in these past years, not only has its impact on international politics been tremendous, it has also engendered international conflicts with grave consequences. One of such consequences is that it has encouraged majör povvers, especially the US, to label some countries, haven of terrorists and security threat to world peace. Consequently, such countries have becomes targets of the phenomenal Global War on Terrorism GWT . The US-led "Operation Enduring Freedom" in Afghanistan, which saw the overthrow of the Taliban regime in that country, was a signifıcant debut of GWT. After this episode, a rattled US smarting from the September 11, 2001 attack, took the GWT crusade to the backyards of some other states that it considered axis of evil namely Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. Of the three states, the GWT campaign against Iraq appears to be the most controversial and a majör threat to world peace KW - Al - Qaeda KW - Axis of Evil KW - Global War on Terrorism KW - Operation Enduring Freedom KW - Operation Iraqi Freedom. UR - https://doi.org/10.1501/Intrel_0000000101 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/845074 ER -